With a vision to provide the utmost level of healthcare to the common man, at the most affordable cost, a group of NRI physicians led by Dr. Purshotam Lal (Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Dr. B.C. Roy National awardee), a pioneer of Interventional Cardiology in India, founded Metro Hospitals & Heart Institute. The first hospital was set up in Noida in June 1997 by the name of Metro Hospitals & Heart Institute.
Immediately after foraying into the heart care segment, Multispeciality wing was started in September 1998, followed by Metro Centre for Liver & Digestive Diseases, Metro Center for Respiratory Diseases, Metro Heart Institutes at Meerut, Faridabad; Lajpat Nagar, Patel Nagar, Preet Vihar at Delhi and Metro Hospital & Research Centre at Vadodara.